Editing Todd Rundgren (section)

===1990s–2000s: TR-I, PatroNet, and ''Liars''===
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The mid-1990s saw Rundgren recording under the pseudonym TR-i ("Todd Rundgren interactive") for two albums. The first of these, 1993's ''[[No World Order]]'', consisted of hundreds of seconds-long snippets of music, that could be combined in various ways to suit the listener. Initially targeted for the [[Philips CD-i]] platform, ''No World Order'' featured interactive controls for tempo, mood, and other parameters, along with pre-programmed mixes by Rundgren himself, [[Bob Clearmountain]], [[Don Was]] and [[Jerry Harrison]]. The disc was also released for [[IBM PC compatible|PC]] and [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] and in two versions on standard [[Compact disc|audio CD]], the continuous mix disc ''No World Order'' and, later, the more song-oriented ''[[No World Order Lite]]''. The music itself was quite a departure from Rundgren's previous work, with a dance/[[Techno music|techno]] feel and much [[rapping]] by Rundgren. The follow-up, ''[[The Individualist]]'' (1995), featured interactive video content, that could be viewed or in one case, played; it was a simple video game along with the music, which was more rock-oriented than ''No World Order''.

Rundgren returned to recording under his own name for ''[[With a Twist...]]'' (1997), an album of [[Bossa nova|bossa-nova]] covers of his older material. His PatroNet work, which trickled out to subscribers over more than a year, was released in 2000 as ''[[One Long Year]]''. In 2004, Rundgren released ''[[Liars (Todd Rundgren album)|Liars]]'', a concept album about "paucity of truth", that features a mixture of his older and newer sounds.

As the Internet gained mass acceptance, Rundgren, along with longtime manager Eric Gardner and Apple digital music exec Kelli Richards, started PatroNet, which offered fans (patrons) access to his works-in-progress and new unreleased tracks in exchange for a subscription fee, cutting out record labels. The songs from Rundgren's first PatroNet run were later released as the album ''[[One Long Year]]''. Since then, Rundgren has severed his connections with major record labels and continues to offer new music direct to subscribers via his website, although he also continues to record and release CDs through independent labels. As of 2022, the PatroNet.com website was not active.